Interview: Lucasfilm’s ILM Animation Director Hal Hickel

The Resistance Broadcast: Star Wars Podcast

TRB

Tv & Film

4.6 • 881 Ratings

🗓️ 4 March 2021

⏱️ 111 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

On this episode we are joined by Hal Hickel, the animation director of ILM! Hal has been working with Lucasfilm and Star Wars since The Phantom Menace. He shares stories from throughout his career, spanning back to working on the original Toy Story for Pixar. There are a lot of heartwarming, charming, and hilarious stories here, including how Hal inadvertently pissed off George Lucas once because of an edit he made to a notable scene, Mark Hamill's return as Luke in The Mandalorian, working with Favreau and Filoni, and an absolutely wonderful story about a letter he wrote to Lucasfilm as a kid. The Resistance base is open to all, so spread the word about our Star Wars podcast and join us! Be sure to subscribe free to the show on your preferred platform!

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0	If you're listening to this broadcast, you're a part of the resistance. Welcome everybody to the Resistance broadcast. I'm John. Thanks so much for joining us today.
0:35.9	James and Lacey with me as always. and we have a special one for you.
0:40.6	We have no will of the force.
0:44.1	I apologize.
0:45.3	No resistance transmissions.
0:47.1	I apologize for that.
0:49.0	No tweets from you.
0:49.8	But what we do have, as you saw probably by clicking in, is an interview with the animation director of ILM.
0:57.4	I think the first Oscar winner we've ever had on the podcast, if I remember correctly.
1:02.5	Also an Emmy winner.
1:04.7	Hal Hickle.
1:06.5	And Lacey, we nerded out pretty hard.
1:11.3	Obsessed.
1:12.2	I feel like I say that for every guest, but I'm obsessed with how that call.
1:16.7	You do say that.
1:17.5	And everyone's the best, but he's certainly up there.
1:21.5	He's so fun.
1:22.8	So, James, they're in for a good time right now, right?
1:26.1	They got to buckle up, baby.
1:27.2	Yeah, absolutely. I mean, I think we went into the interview. they're in for a good time right now right they got to buckle up baby yeah absolutely i mean i think
1:29.2	we we went into the interview um with you know kind of what we had in mind and he just like
1:36.4	expanded on every idea and took it to the uh the ends of the story that all the little tidbits and
	...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Previous episode | Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from TRB, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of TRB and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.